Example sentences of "[noun] said that [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As mentioned above , several headteachers said that during June even the more academic pupils are tempted to take time off and this is sometimes condoned by parents . |
| 2 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said that for Saddam Hussein it was no longer a matter of saving face but that he must save his country and the world by avoiding war ; if Iraq were to harm a single Soviet national , his government reserved the right to take appropriate action . |
| 3 | The CEGB said that for Hinkley C this could total about £200 million , but ‘ since no large commercial nuclear power station in the world has yet been decommissioned , present cost estimates must be regarded as uncertain' . |
| 4 | The UN said that by Oct. 24 some 100,000 suburban residents had fled to the relative safety of central Monrovia . |
| 5 | In a letter dated 19 November , the Lord Advocate said that in Scotland ’ Civil actions are raised in the Court of Session or Sheriff Court Mrs. would have to establish first of all that she does indeed have a right to raise an action arising from the unfortunate incident of which she has complained . |
| 6 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 7 | Adopting a Labour Party proposal , Lamont said that from December 1993 the two parts would be combined . |
| 8 | Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after . |
| 9 | Mr Yeltsin said that by December he would present a new law on forming a government that would have cancelled his special powers . |
| 10 | A report issued on Feb. 9 by the New York-based organization Lawyers Committed for Human Rights said that inside Myanma thousands remained detained for long periods under poor conditions , with some prisoners being tortured . |
| 11 | In Kennedy v. Broun ( 1863 ) 13 C.B. 677 ( Common Pleas ) Erle C.J. said that in Lampleigh v. Brathwait , ‘ it was assumed that the journeys which the plaintiff performed at the request of the defendant , and the other services he rendered , would have been sufficient to make any promise binding if it had been connected therewith in one contract ; the peculiarity of the decision lies in connecting a subsequent promise with a prior consideration after it had been executed . |
| 12 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |